tention craft ed by Mrs. Coulter. S.

        tric altimeter tle use in torm, but situde rougc blazed ling rain, till flaring     difficult, eitning t flickered around tain served as a brilliant bea. But so avoid till fighe rising land below.

        S use ts, because sed to get close and find some s became more violent, ts more sudden and brutal. A gyropter o tention craft sly ing he Peaceable O.

        Cautiously so climb, peering forruments and flying by siginct.    from one side of ttle glass    to to t and rigo antly. tning, great ss and lances of brilliance, flared and cracked above and around t all stle aircraft, gaining    little by little, and alohe cloud-hung palace.

        And as Mrs. Coulter approation dazzled and beure of tain itself.

        It reminded ain abominable orial Court. ed t tial dimensions t on a very small scale, to seven    t to examine directly. ructed a model to s er    before it aining and being tained: its inside side ed    ing space itself to enfold and stretto galleries and terraces, d vapor.

        S a straation ime    t safely up to terra ttle craft lured in turbid air, but so land on terrace.

        t sill noruck ts; but t . It came from tance of tain itself, wher-of-pearl radiance.

        oman and daemon got do and looked around to see whey should go.

        S otance of tain itself ion. S see tives of aircase, terrace, and facade.

        Before so go, ster.

        As tention craft and stopped. tered, and some of t and fear.

        Mrs. Coulter ter: an angel, s, and indescribably aged.    easy to see, because tter al t glittered and t of tain, but serrifying decrepitude, of a face sunken in rembling h and rheumy eyes.

        tured s tention craft, and cackled and muttered to ly at tered a    Mrs. Coulter o cover her ears.

        But evidently task to do, for terrace, ign tter.    a o fly, carrying tter betil t to Mrs. Coulters sighe swirling vapors.

        But t time to t t. S staircases, crossing bridges, al, t t sense of invisible activity all around til finally turned a er into a -ed by an angel h a spear.

        " is your business?" he said.

        Mrs. Coulter looked at ers of men, so long ago.

        "No, no," sly, "please doime. take me to t at once. ing for me."

        Discert t, keep t knoives of ligil to an    antecered, s kno ter a brief pause, somet of her opened like a door.

        o t. , but soo dazzled to see. to hide her eyes.

        Metatron said, "er?"

        "Ive e to tell you, my Lent," she said.

        "If s ;

        "S, but ;

        " be?"

        "I satron,    Regent, tle, my eyes are dazzled..."

        of     till preteo be dazzled by ly like a man in early middle age, tall, poell because of t nothing else.

        "Please, Metatron,    e from Lord Asriel.    to searc;

        " does    ;

        "to keep il s knoo elling you trut me, great Regent, as I t easily look at you. Look at me clearly, and tell me ;

        t     seararisa Coulter er a ripped aogety of Metatrons gaze.

        And s ure    h her whole life.

        "Yes, I see," said Metatron.

        " do you see?"

        "Corruption and envy and lust for poy and ess. A vicious, probing curiosity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You    years s calculating    urn to your advantage. You ortured and killed    regret or ation; you rayed and intrigued and gloried in your treaoral filt;

        t voice, delivering t judgment, ser profoundly. S    s, too, and no it    a little gusriumph.

        So him.

        "So you see," s;I    betray o ing into your ;

        S t of vapor about    ed ice.

        "; ;I y, but none ;

        ";

        "y-five years, and ty took me to ;

        "And you ;

        "I loved tood it y. But     t;

        "And you    kno;

        "I    of t;

        "And is it not time you ?"

        t    s most exposed and in most danger. But srusted to e trut angels, pered it and longed for tact . Aron o gaze at texture of o touch scalding hands.

        trange sound, like t w youre hearing is your house on fire.

        "tell me w Lord Asriel is doing, and w; he said.

        "I    take you to ; she said.

        tter left tain and fleatrons orders o take ty to a place of safety atlefield, because ed    alive for a    rats,    ttention, rusted to ty of torm, calculating t in tances, a small party han a large one.

        And so it migain cliff-g, busy feasting on a    looked up just as a random searc caugal litter.

        Sometirred in ts memory. ion of a babbling Arctic fox came to his mind.

        At once    later t of troop followed.

        Xaply all t and some of te cra taio tress,    and enlarged it, and noo a series of caverns and tunnels extending a long ress.

        It    totally dark, as . t source of illumination, like a stream of billions of tiny particles, faintly gloeadily dounnel like a river of light.

        "Dust," o his daemon.

        t togetil quite suddenly tunnel opened out, and    top of a vast cavern: a vault

        immense enougo tain a dozen catiginously doo pit    beloself, and into t streamed t fall, p ceaselessly dos billions of particles ars of every galaxy in ttle fragment of scious t. It o see by.

        o, to see    t resolved itself: a procession of dim, pale figures pig t. I on keeping toget tir at t ts.

        "Lyra came ; ly to the snow leopard.

        "tread carefully," was all she said in reply.

        ill and Lyra umbling blindly to little gullies reams ra uttered a es, and s and limp in Lyras hand.

        As tered in one riverbed    least, and scooped up o ty mout tialys rouse himself and say:

        "ill, I     must be t across tream and    ;

        "e on," said ill to Lyra, and ter and scrambled up t in time. ttered doo drink didnt look like cavalry: to be of tridents, s, and scimitars.

        ill and Lyra didnt stop to look; tumbled over t a crout only oing away unseen.

        But to keep to see ing an ankle, or    s until them.

        tures    lay glittering in tly taller ts side, a large cage, peral. t it s and rocks, shrieking and yelling.

        And before ill and Lyra could stop and run tumbled rigo troop.
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